A yellow 1939 Buick postcard. Quite a find. You may not have seen the 1939 Buick page. It tells how we (Dad, Mom, Don and I) had just such a car. The card in this exhibit is from a dealer. I think there is a price noted on the back. My mother was 5'7" tall. Look at her height on the 1939 Buick page as compared to the height of the Lady In Red on the postcard. You figure they made her small so the car would be more impressive?

Model Quest Rating for this item:   .728

                Make        Model      Year         Color            Detail/Scale       Gestalt       Rating
Original    Buick        4-door      1939        Yellow                                                        
Sample       10             10             10            10                  3 / 0                  8            51/70

I have seen a 1:43 model for sale, a 4-door convertible Indianapolis pace car by Brooklin, I think. By the time I found it it was sold.

The green car is a '49 Roadmaster (four-holer) two-door hardtop. Rare in life and rare in modelling. It's 1:64 scale. The hood actually opens to show the long old straight-8 engine. It doesn't open like the real thing: that one would tilt up on either side, depending on which side you wanted to release. On a couple of occasions I undid both sides of our '49 Buick's hood and left it on the front lawn while my friends and I went cruising.

A purple 1949 Buick Special (three-holer) convertible. Our Special was that medium blue color, and a four door sedan. The model is labled and sold as 1:43. My experts and my eye tell me this example is smaller, perhaps—could it be—1:48? I think so.

Model Quest Rating for this item:   .6

                Make        Model      Year         Color            Detail/Scale       Gestalt       Rating
Original    Buick        4-door      1949        Blue                                                          
Sample       10              5             10            2                  3 / 7                  5            42/70

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